I have encountered a few instances where a user has asked me to mimic his permissions corresponding to another user. In such scenarios it is really difficult to check the user’s footprint on all site collections in the farm. I have written a script that is placed here: TechNet Download. This script checks any user’s …

This post has less to do with how to obtain this information from SharePoint and is more about making use of the native capabilities of PowerShell coupled with the SharePoint specific PowerShell cmdlets to make the resulting PowerShell code more configurable and pleasing to the eye. Pipelines are very effective in enumerating, sorting and filtering collections and hence serve as the perfect …